Should Taxpayers stop funding NASA?
No. NASA is a test bed and creator of many of the things we take for granted today. Space exploration was, is, and always will be, at the forefront of scientific research. Many applications originally designed for space exploration triggers into every day use (the ball point pen, MRI, to name a few). Besides, NASA stands for the National Aeronautics and Space Agency. So NASA also does flight in air research that directly affects the safety of commercial flights. By the way, remember the dinosaurs and the other mass extinctions in Earth’s history. They are going to happen again. It is not a question of if but when. Also, NASA’s budget is 0.55% of the national budget (17.6 billion). You want to know what we should cut? How about the military at 21% (906 billion).
